Gmina Siennica

Infobox Settlement
name = Gmina Siennica
other_name = Siennica Commune
settlement_type = Gmina
total_type = Total


image_shield =


subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Masovian
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Mińsk
area_total_km2 = 111
population_total = 6912
population_as_of = 2006
population_density_km2 = auto
seat = Siennica
website = http://www.ugsiennica.pl/ __NOTOC__Gmina Siennica is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Mińsk County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Siennica, which lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) south-east of Mińsk Mazowiecki and 44 km (27 mi) south-east of Warsaw.

The gmina covers an area of convert|111|km2|sqmi|1, and as of 2006 its total population is 6,912.

Massacre during Second World War

During the German Invasion of Poland in 1939, German soldiers from Wehrmacht mass murdered 22 Poles and 2 Jews in Siennica in what is described as "sadistic beating by iron tools" and shooting between 13 and 14 September.The responsible German soldiers proclaimed to the gathered population that the Poles "pigs". The villagers were trapped and imprisoned in an historic church which the Germans shot at, terryfing the imprisoned people. At the same time two women with children were told they could go home, when they did, the Germans set fire to their homes and the women barely escaped with their lifes, hiding outside the village. When some of the people tried to fulfill their physiological needs the German soldiers humilitated them and told that those who want can go outside the church. When some tried to do that, they were brutally beaten. During the murder other German soldiers used incendiary grenades to burn down 70 buildings. The village was destroyed in 80% and the historic church destroyed [Szymon Datner "55 dni Wehrmachtu w Polsce" page 380-384] .

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Siennica is bordered by the gminas of Cegłów, Kołbiel, Latowicz, Mińsk Mazowiecki, Parysów and Pilawa.

References

* [http://www.stat.gov.pl/gus/45_655_PLK_HTML.htm Polish official population figures 2006]